Title
Virtual proxy servers for WWW and intelligent agents on the Internet
Abstract
The World Wide Web (WWW) has become extremely popular in recent years. However, there still exist many fundamental problems not yet solved in a satisfactory way, such as information search, distribution, caching, filtering problems, etc. Users still often suffer from long retrieval latency, and the lack of search function which can conduct localized search or hierarchical search. We propose a framework for solving the above mentioned fundamental problems by introducing a new model of WWW proxy servers. In our model, a proxy is not just an add-in to existing Web servers to provide cache and security functions, but works as a middle layer between browsers and Web servers, which can be plugged in a variety of functions for WWW applications, such as search engine, resource index, information filtering, robot, profile, intelligent agents, etc. It's a framework for implementing hierarchical information servers and it's the right place to plug in various intelligent agents. To illustrate the usefulness of our model, we have implemented two fundamental functions into this middle layer: the object lookup scheme (collaborative caching) and the searchable proxy. We call this extensible proxy server “Virtual Proxy”. Since search and retrieval are the most fundamental problems in the World Wide Web, we explain how these two problems can be solved in a better way using the Virtual Proxy servers
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/HICSS.1997.663382
HICSS (4)
Keywords
Field
DocType
filtering problems,searchable proxy,world-wide web,intelligent agents,web server,world wide web,middle layer,fundamental problem,suchas search engine,localized search,information retrieval,www application,www proxyservers,network servers,resource index,search engine,information search,virtual proxy servers,internet,web servers,hierarchical information servers,www proxy servers,retrieval latency,www applications,client-server systems,extensible proxy server,hierarchical search,object lookup scheme,security functions,collaborative caching,software agents,local search,search engines,intelligent agent,indexation,information security
World Wide Web,Intelligent agent,Computer science,Cache,Server,Software agent,Plug-in,Proxy server,The Internet,Web server
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4
1060-3425
0-8186-7743-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sun Wu120.36
Chang-Chain Liao220.36